Services
We partner with purpose-driven organizations to amplify your impact.
OUR SERVICESWe are the seasoned, organized, detail-oriented data nerds you’ve been looking for to help you understand and engage your constituents, measure and communicate your impact, and plan for next steps.
Needs Assessment
Take the temperature of your community and understand what its greatest strengths are that can be leveraged to address its most pressing needs.
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The world can change very quickly. Sometimes we need a fresh view of the dynamic local landscape to understand the current context within which our programs operate. Clarity Social Research Group brings an equity-focused, community-based, human-centered lens to help you understand yours.
Our needs assessments are community-based, centering the voices and lived experiences of those most impacted by your work to help you understand, prioritize, and respond to your community’s most urgent needs.
Clarity equips you with what you’ll need to make data-driven decisions that center equity and elevate lived experience.
Research + Evaluation
Clarify and articulate your theory of change and then figure out how to measure progress and outcomes for ongoing learning and improvement through data-driven decision making.
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We are a team of data nerds at heart. Measurement is our love language. As practitioners of culturally-responsive and equitable evaluation, equity and inclusion are infused throughout our research and evaluation engagements.
Clarity will help you clarify and articulate your theory of change and design process and outcome evaluations to test that theory. Our evaluations can inform as to your program’s efficacy and will point to areas that require attention to improve the outcomes you hope to achieve. When done well, ongoing monitoring and evaluation will strengthen your programs and ultimately amplify your impact while ensuring equity is uplifted in your programming efforts to support your communities.
You will be empowered by the confidence gained through the formal empirical observation and analysis that will help you understand and tell the story of what and how you do what you do.
Community Engagement
Listen to what your community is talking about! Test your theories out on the people who can tell what works. Gather their input to help you figure out priorities.
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Do you listen to the voices of those most impacted by the change you’re trying make?
We can help you with that. Centering equity in everything we do means acknowledging that we don’t have all the answers, and so we seek input from those with lived expertise with the issues we’re trying to address. Clarity works with a multi-cultural, multi-lingual team to engage broadly and deeply to understand the lives and communities your organization is hoping to support and we design participatory processes whenever possible.
The result of our collaborative engagement effort is a reflection of the lived experiences of your constituents that will help you more effectively support your community.
You will gain a clearer understanding of your community because we will have facilitated a people-centered engagement experience focused on listening and learning from the people at the heart of your work.
Technical Support + Capacity Building
Level up your organization with a little infrastructure building, a little assistance with procedures, a little training. A little goes a long way.
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Can’t figure out what data you need? Or how to collect it? Got a pile of data you don’t know what to do with? Need help sorting through it? Could you use some support building internal infrastructure and capacity to empower your organization?
Clarity is here to help. We love bringing order and building capacity so that you can carry on the good work you do better.
We can help you figure out what kinds of data you need to collect, develop forms and procedures to collect them, design data entry protocols and databases, and develop dashboards to make data analysis and reporting a cinch. We will work with you to develop tools to fit your needs and to build your capacity to help you become more efficient and effective at what you do.
Clarity meets your organizational competencies where they’re at to build internal procedures, infrastructure, and supports you need to level up.
Strategic Planning + Organizational Thought Partnership
Develop a roadmap for where your organization is going and how to get there and then measure the journey along the way so that you can continually learn and move forward with intentionality.
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It helps to have a roadmap to help you achieve your priority outcomes. We have worked with a wide variety of organizations, creating roadmaps of all kinds. We can jump into your situation and help you make sense of your organizational priorities and sync up your structures and processes to be more effective at achieving your mission. Always leaning into participatory processes, our strategic partnerships are human-centered and reflect lived expertise. After all, strategies are only as good as they can be implemented in real life.
We can help you assess the climate and culture of your organization, articulate and then design action steps and accountability benchmarks to achieve organizational change.
We can help you align your theory of change with your organizational mission and vision. Then we operationalize your mission and vision into priorities and strategies. Clarity will help you clarify and concretize strategic organizational goals and develop actionable objectives towards achieving them in a participatory, inclusive process that ensures the end product is ground-truthed.
By the time we’re done with you, you’ll have a roadmap with clear action steps that each key component of your organization will take to achieve collective goals. Your organization will gain a better understanding of itself and your employees will have a clearer sense of how their work connects to the larger mission.
Understand your impact.
Walking in partnership through listening, learning, making meaning, planning, and taking action for change.
OUR PROJECTSSee our work in action
You have a gift for translating a massive amount of complex data into something that is approachable and digestible to everyone.
Policy Analyst at San Francisco Department of Early Childhood
